BABY DJ SCHOOL begins September 18th in Brooklyn!!

BABY DJ SCHOOL

*Empowering the super young to mix music that is super dope.*

Baby DJ School, an eight-week early childhood music program led by acclaimed DJ and musician Natalie Elizabeth Weiss, will soon make its anticipated debut. On September 18, original songs such as “Makin’ Our Favorite Beat Drop” and “That’s Why Daddy Loves Disco” will transform the ordinary Mommy-and-me sing-along experience into an educational escapade into the wonderful worlds of electro, hip-hop, and house! Through singing, movement and interactive technology, little ones will be introduced to playing and handling records, mixing and matching beats and creating fun and funky samples using modern DJ equipment. Baby DJ School will encourage babies to love dance music and appreciate the way it’s made in a family-friendly, positive environment! Baby DJ School is presented by Cool Pony Crown Heights, Brooklyn’s premiere music venue, vinyl haven and vintage clothing store. Why should children hear the same nursery songs underscored by the same instruments time and time again? Switch out a guitar for a sampler, a piano for a mixing board and a song about black sheep for a song about back beats, and you have an exciting new musical landscape that both young and old will enjoy. Best of all, electronic beats can be mixed by pushing buttons and moving sliders that are easy for little hands to manipulate. On the heels of Weiss’ innovative children’s music classes at Roulette Kids and in the Brooklyn “Inventgenuity” Festival—both of which were featured in the New York Times—Baby DJ School promises to be as fun as it is fascinating.

Class Details:

Baby DJ School @ Cool Pony Crown Heights

733 Franklin Ave Brooklyn, NY 11238

Wednesdays beginning September 18th, 2013 (8 week session) 10:30am-11:15am

For Children Ages 0-3

$200 a family for 8 weeks. Email about a *FREE* trial class.

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: email [email hidden] or call (646) 836-2729 to snag a spot!

NATALIE ELIZABETH WEISS is a DJ and composer whose original music has been dubbed “very catchy” (NY Post), “refreshing and uplifting” (TimeOut NY), “hilarious”(NY Magazine), and “epic and exultant” (Paper Magazine). Her shows and classes have been featured recommendations in the New York Times, Village Voice, Nylon Magazine, TimeOut NY Kids, Flavorpill.com and more. As a DJ, Natalie has shared bills with members of LCD Soundsystem, Psychedelic Furs, Fischerspooner, Butthole Surfers and Dirty Projectors as well as with the actors Steve Martin and Meryl Streep. From 2011-2012 she was the Composition Mentorship Fellow with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. http://www.NatalieElizabethWeiss.com

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Oh my. 0-3 yrs? How much mixing is a 6 month old baby going to be doing? At some of these ages babies don't even know their hands are connected to their bodies. This is satire of what Crown Heights has become?

And "

Baby DJ School is presented by Cool Pony Crown Heights, Brooklyn’s premiere music venue, vinyl haven and vintage clothing store.

Of Course this is happening at Cool Pony. But come on, who in their most delusional moment would call this place Brooklyn's Premiere Music Venue? So, again, satire? After all, in an introductory write-up the owners of Cool Pony were of the opinion that

the demographic that truly holds sway on rapidly developing Franklin Avenue is people in their 20s, not 5-year-olds

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/36/11/dtg_hipstersnotparents_2013_03_15_bk.html

This is more of the "See how hip we are? We are so hip, you can't even begin to understand our hipness. We made hip, without us hip would have no "p" and would just be a sad and whispered "hi"" that has become the Brooklyn brand. Brooklyn used to be cool just because. Now its cool because you can afford to pay $200 for your toddler to drool over vinyl.

http://gothamist.com/2013/09/09/baby_dj.php

You're famous

LOL, way to go Homeowner!

I don't think it is wrong to be glad that this aspect of Franklin Avenue is rapidly fading, aka "being priced out".

Related thread on Cool Pony: http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/topic/the-candy-store-opening-soon-on-franklin-sterling/page/2?replies=65#post-772177

The Brooklynian blog gets a mention in Yahoo's 'Parenting' section, with quotes from homeowner and tateinbk: http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/baby-dj-class-offered-brooklyn-jr-8217-got-184600312.html

NPR made fun of it this morning on Wait, Wait don't tell me.

Listeners had to guess whether the existence of this class was true.

My favorite comment from the mass media thus far was from the WSJ article on line:

Thomas W wrote:

If you can afford to send your baby to baby-DJ class, your baby IS NOT HIP ENOUGH to be a respectable DJ. that is all.

WSJ article

If the "Park Slope stroller set" came from the minds of the owners (and not the WSJ journalist), they may be onto something...that the many, local Crown Heights babies are not the target market here. Making me love It Takes a Village and its non-profit-ness more every day.

Interesting, though, that there's never any mention that Baby DJ could have spawned from this: http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130806/crown-heights/cool-pony-liquor-license-lighting-rod-for-angry-neighbors

It does really represent yet another nail in the coffin of Crown Height's reputation as being home of crime and riots.

LOLZ

These young whippersnappers know nothing about DJ'ing. Until you can scratch this sh@* out of some Hickory Dickory

on this you're nothing.

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